“Local Border Traffic” Permits

On October 11th 2012, the jubilee issue of “Local Border Traffic” permit № 100,000 was presented at the premises of the Consulate General of Poland in Lviv. The ceremony was attended by Mr. Markian Malskyy, Ambassador of Ukraine in Poland and Mr. Henryk Litvin, Ambassador of Poland in Ukraine who presented 3 jubilee permits to Ukrainian citizens – permit № 99,999 was given to Larysa Pihotska (Chervonograd), permit № 100, 000 to Karolina Stasyuk (Sambir) and permit № 100,001 to Josyp Ilnytskyy (Sosnivka).It was on July 1st 2009, when Poland and Ukraine signed a new agreement replacing visas with a simplified “Local Border Traffic” permits, which facilitate easy and repeated border crossing without a Schengen visa. These permits are issued to people who have lived within 30 km of the border for more than three years and are a key mechanism for encouraging people to people contact within the region.